Greetings players and fellow patzers 🙂
I was coasting fairly comfortably in this game (played on another site).
Two pawns up, got down to an endgame with just Queen and pawns.
All I was focused on was minimising what checks my opponent had,
while I advanced my pawns and looked for mate.
Then suddenly I got slapped in the face by a big wet fish.
I had Black.
[Event "quackers's mini-tournament II"]
[Site "https://gameknot.com/chess.pl?bd=29854889"]
[Date "2020.08.06"]
[Round "-"]
[White "ferroca"]
[Black "quackers"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1714"]
[BlackElo "1951"]
[TimeControl "604800+86400"]
[Mode "ICS"]
[Termination "normal"]
1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 g6 3. Nc3 d5 4. Nf3 Bg7 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. e4 Nxc3 7. bxc3 O-O
8. Bc4 c5 9. e5 Bg4 10. O-O Nc6 11. Bf4 cxd4 12. Qd3 Bxf3 13. Qxf3 Nxe5
14. Bxe5 Bxe5 15. Rad1 Qc7 16. cxd4 Bxh2+ 17. Kh1 Qxc4 18. Kxh2 Qc7+ 19. Kg1 Rac8
20. d5 Qd6 21. Rb1 b6 22. Rfd1 Rc5 23. Rb3 Ra5 24. a3 Rc8 25. Rbd3 Rc4
26. g3 Rca4 27. Ra1 b5 28. Kh2 Rh4+ 29. Kg2 Rh5 30. Rd4 Rf5 31. Qc3 Rxd5
32. Qxa5 Rxd4 33. Qxa7 Ra4 34. Qb7 Rxa3 35. Rxa3 Qxa3 36. Qxb5 h5 37. Qb8+ Kg7
38. Qe5+ f6 39. Qd5 Qd6 40. Qe4 f5 41. Qe3 e5 42. Qc3 Qd4 43. Qc7+ Kh6
44. Qc8 e4 45. Qf8+ Kg5 46. Qe7+ Qf6 47. Qc7 f4 48. Qc5+ Kh6 49. Qc1 g5
50. gxf4 gxf4 51. Qd2 h4 52. Qd1 Qg5+ 53. Kh3 f3 54. Qd6+ Kh5 55. Qe5 {Incredible... If Kh6 or e3, White simply plays Qh8+ and there will be repeated checks forever (or lose the Queen) whereas Kg6 can be met with Qxe4+ and White may even be winning} 55... Qxe5 {So I chose to end it immediately, congratulating my opponent for the nice spot.... damned spot!}
1/2-1/2